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...recent years, the most popular fairy tales of our youth have become fractured. Unexpectedly complex characters, like the reflective and philosophical witches of “Wicked” or even the computer-animated ogres of “Shrek,” often warp the traditional once-upon-a-time ideal to reach a conditional, complicated “happily ever after” in modern updates of classic fables...
...Segolene Royal, this year's Socialist contender, is running second in the polls behind conservative front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy of Chirac's Union for a Popular Majority (UMP). Striking a pose of tranquility and confidence, she never explicitly invokes the prospect of a repeat of her party's ignoble 2002 debacle. But her partner, Socialist Party Secretary Francois Hollande, put it bluntly a few days ago: "If the left is to be position to rule the country, people have to vote for Royal in the first round...
...iPod, visitors must anticipate their trip to the museum and download accordingly, requiring a degree of planning unusual among many student visitors. Moreover, there is the question of whether the podcast restricts its audience to only those who can afford a digital music player. But Hays says the popularity of iPods among students at Harvard is high enough that no student should have difficulty borrowing one from a friend. Due in large part to these limitations, museum podcasts are still a very new concept. Hays speculates that they are offered in only about 25 museums across the country. She says...
...argues are the factors that have most influenced America’s relations with the tumultuous region: power, particularly militaristic and political; faith, by which he means Christian evangelism, especially its relationship to Zionism; and fantasy, the depiction of the Middle East as a mystical, faraway land in popular culture from “Lawrence of Arabia” to Disney’s “Aladdin...
...ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, he argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...